The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. October 17, 2024
How Home Care Software Can Address Challenges for Clinical Managers
In the evolving field of home care, clinical managers face numerous challenges that impact their ability to provide high-quality patient care. Home Care Software offers powerful solutions to these challenges by transforming how clinical managers operate and manage their teams.
Discover how home care software helps clinical managers overcome challenges like scheduling, compliance, and care team communication to improve patient outcomes.
Home Health Care Agencies typically spend about 60% of their revenue on employee wages, and most of it will be for field employees providing services to patients. Declining reimbursements, continuing labor shortages, and increased labor costs make it imperative to improve the utilization of clinicians' time.
Improving operational efficiency in scheduling, clinical documentation, and quality assurance will impact the bottom line of Home Care Agencies. Home Care Agencies should look for a software platform that will provide the right tools to enhance clinicians' productivity.
More than 40 percent of older Americans regularly take five or more prescription drugs, and nearly 20 percent take ten or more, according to a 2020 report from the nonpartisan think tank Lown Institute. When over-the-counter medicines and supplements are factored in, the share of older adults popping five or more pills — a practice known as polypharmacy — shoots up to 67 percent.
When patients receive higher acuity care at home, medication management becomes a critical aspect of providing quality and safe care. The right Home Care Software and technology will help clinicians keep accurate lists of medications, educate patients & caregivers, monitor medication administration, and improve patient safety and outcomes.
Home Healthcare Industry News
New Metric will help LTC get ahead of viral outbreaks: AHCA/NCAL
A new CDC metric can help long-term care providers stay a step ahead in preventing respiratory virus outbreaks, the AHCA/NCAL says.
Keeping older adults in their homes requires expanding the role of home health aides
While the restrictions on home health aides most affect unbefriended older adults, they are also a significant challenge for family or other informal caregivers.
‘We Need A Break, Please!’: Home Health Providers Sound Off On CMS Over Rate Cuts
“Opposed.” That was the one-word response a home health provider left for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) during the comment period on the 2025 home health proposed payment rule.
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